Infrastructure Monitoring

Question 1

What are key host configurations?

Answer 1

Host naming config rules: settings=> Host Naming
Excluding traffic: (host) => settings => Exclude Network traffic => add exclusion
Monitoring mode: Full stack monitoring can be enabled to detect code-level changes
Anomaly detection:

Question 2

When is OSI_Unexpectedly_Unavailable problem triggered?

Answer 2

When the host is ungracefully shut down.
If the host was powered off gracefully Dynatrace will not register a problem but this behavior can be changed.

Question 3

What are Log processing rules?

Answer 3

Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics can reshape incoming log data for better understanding, analysis, or further processing based on rules that you create.
A log processing rule consists of the following:
Rule name
Matcher
Rule definition
On top of built-in rules, you can create custom rules.

Question 4

What are the steps to configure log and analytics?

Answer 4

0 Enable: Settings => Monitoring Technology => Log Monitoring => enable
1 OneAgent Configuration: Settings => Log Monitoring =>
2 Log Source Configuration:
3 Sensitive Data Masking
4 Timestamp configuration
5 Log Buckets

Question 5

What happens when the network monitoring overhead(of oneagent) exceeds 5% CPU?

Answer 5

It pauses for 3min, if the problem persists then 6min until it reaches 45min

Question 6

What is the added feature you get from the Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring mode license?

Answer 6

You can enable Full-Stack monitoring.

Question 7

Where is Application-only monitoring preferred?

Answer 7

On PaaS services such as, OpenShift online, Azure App Services etc.

Question 8

How can you enable Container Monitoring?

Answer 8

Setting => Processes and Containers => Container Monitoring

Question 9

What are the steps required to monitor VMware?

Answer 9

1. Install and configure an Active Gate
2. Connect Dynatrace and VMware Platform (read-only and view access user will be required)